DocBook to LaTeX Publishing transforms your SGML/XML DocBook documents to DVI, PostScript or PDF by translating them in pure LaTeX as a first process. MathML 2.0 markups are supported too. It started as a clone of DB2LaTeX.

The XeTeX backend is added to dblatex 0.2.9. XeTeX is modern a TeX engine that allows you to compile the document natively in UTF-8. All the workarounds and tricky things to handle non latin1 characters are no more needed.

The common stylesheets used from the DocBook Project are updated and synced to the 1.72 release. Now, dblatex supports xrefstyle and olinking. Of course, the 0.2.7 release also includes other improvements and bug fixes.